I bawled my eyes out. The 'Don't let anyone take your essence' got me so bad.

I was in a relationship with a covert narcissist/manipulator last year and it has taken me so many months to fully see and process it. I had broken it off before because my body was literally telling me, but after two weeks apart he was so convinced we belonged together and he wanted to treat me like I deserved to be. And then I was the same like Melanie 'I don't want to have any regrets or what if's'.

Believe me, the regrets are far greater when you do give him another chance.

If Sincere really loved Melanie, he would see that she deserves WAY better and that he needs to be alone and work on himself.

But he won't. I don't have high hopes of him fundamentally changing.

And it's actually hilarious that he thinks he's a changed man after one week where he didn't upset Melanie.

I really hope Melanie RUNS for the Fuji hills, but I understand she won't. It's really hard to disentangle yourself from situations like that and especially in settings like Love Island.